Jews: The Talmud in Paperback

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as
Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English
editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to
several hundred dollars in price; in general, only synagogues and big
libraries can afford to have copies. To make it more accessible,
Conservative Judaism's United Synagogue of America this week published
the first volume of a new paperback translation of the Talmud, edited
by Rabbi Arnost Ehrman of Jerusalem's Hebrew University.